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1932 – Kansas City, Missouri – Jim Londos retains the National Wrestling Association title against Abe Coleman 2 falls to 0.
1946 – EMLL Domingos de Coliseo 13 Aniversario – Steve Morgan beats Firpo Segura for the Mexican Heavyweight title.
1948 – Nobeoka, Japan – 3-time world tag champion, 1-time NWA United National Champion, 1-time NWA TV Champion and 1-time NWA American Champion The Great Kabuki is born.
1958 – Nuku'alofa, Tonga – 1-time WCW U.S. Tag Champion, 1-time NWA Six-Man Tag Champion for JCP and Powers of Pain member, The Barbarian is born.
1964 – Short Hills, New Jersey – 3-time world champion, 5-time world tag team champion, 1-time WCW U.S. Champion, 1-time WCW Light Heavyweight Champion and 27-time WWE Hardcore Champion, Raven is born.
1970 – Asheboro, North Carolina – Former WCW wrestler Lodi is born.
1971 – Winchester, Virginia – 1-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette is born.
1974 – Atlanta, Georgia – 3-time NWA World Tag Champion Rick Michaels is born.
1983 – AJPW @ Chiba – Stan Hansen beats Giant Baba for the PWF Heavyweight title.
1990 – WCW World Championship Wrestling – The Steiners retain the NWA US Tag titles against Barry Horowitz & Doug Vines and Doom retain the NWA World Tag titles against Joe Barrett & Brad Batten.
1991 – NWA – Ric Flair is stripped of the NWA title for appearing on WWF TV as NWA Champion. A legal injuction is taken to retrieve the physical belt from Flair.
1995 – UFC 7 – Ken Shamrock retains the UFC Superfight title against Oleg Taktarov via draw.
1997 – WWF Raw vs WCW Nitro – Nitro easily beats Raw by 2.1 points. Raw sees Steve Austin vacate the Intercontinental title due to his neck injury from Owen Hart's Summerslam reverse piledriver and Bret Hart retains the WWF title against Vader in a no holds barred affair via no contest. Nothing of note happens on Nitro.
1999 – Beloved WCW referee Brian Hildebrand aka Mark Curtis succumbs to stomach and bowel cancer age 37.
2000 – AAA TV Taping – Pirata Morgan & El Texano beat Hector Garza & Perro Aguayo Jr for the Mexican Tag titles.
2001 – IWA Midsouth Sweet Science Sixteen – Ace Steel beats Nova to win the Sweet Science tournament and Corporal Robinson beats Mitch Page in the main event in a barbwire pool of leeches match. Sounds awesome. And by awesome, I mean stupid.
2001 – AJPW Budokan Show – Arashi & Koki Kitahara beat Shigeo Okumura & nobutaka Araya for the All Asia Tag titles and Genichiro Tenryu & Yoji Anjo retain the AJPW World Tag titles against Taiyo Kea & Keiji Muto.
2004 – TNA Weekly PPV – Elix Skipper & Chris Harris beat The Naturals for the NWA Tag titles and Jeff Jarrett retains the NWA World title against Jeff Hardy.
2007 – OVW TV – Shawn Spears retains the OVW TV title against Colt Cabana, Mike Kruel retains the OVW title against Elijah Burke and Chet the Jett & Steve Lewington beat Kassidy James & KC James for the OVW Tag titles.
2007 – UFC 75 – UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rampage Jackson beats PRIDE Middleweight Champion Dan Henderson in an unification match.
2008 – Palo Verde, California – 1-time UFC Middleweight Champion Evan Tanner dies of heatstroke after going on a solo excursion into the desert.
2009 – ECW – Zack Ryder beats a young jobber called Rory Fargo, whose trunks split during the match and left his balls exposed. Fargo has to be filmed from the waist up for the hurried remainder of the match and marks the only time someone took a neckbreaker and held their balls instead of their neck.
2011 – TNA Impact Wrestling – Eric Young retains the TNA TV title (hey, remember that title? I wonder what happened to it) and Kurt Angle retains the TNA title against Mr Anderson via self DQ with Sting as special enforcer.
2012 – CZW Down With The Sickness – MASADA retains the CZW World title against El Generico and CZW Junior Heavyweight Champion AR Fox beats CZW Wired TV Champion Dave Crist in a unification ladder match. The CZW Jr Heavy title is retired.
1946 – EMLL Domingos de Coliseo 13 Aniversario – Steve Morgan beats Firpo Segura for the Mexican Heavyweight title.
1948 – Nobeoka, Japan – 3-time world tag champion, 1-time NWA United National Champion, 1-time NWA TV Champion and 1-time NWA American Champion The Great Kabuki is born.
1958 – Nuku'alofa, Tonga – 1-time WCW U.S. Tag Champion, 1-time NWA Six-Man Tag Champion for JCP and Powers of Pain member, The Barbarian is born.
1964 – Short Hills, New Jersey – 3-time world champion, 5-time world tag team champion, 1-time WCW U.S. Champion, 1-time WCW Light Heavyweight Champion and 27-time WWE Hardcore Champion, Raven is born.
1970 – Asheboro, North Carolina – Former WCW wrestler Lodi is born.
1971 – Winchester, Virginia – 1-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette is born.
1974 – Atlanta, Georgia – 3-time NWA World Tag Champion Rick Michaels is born.
1983 – AJPW @ Chiba – Stan Hansen beats Giant Baba for the PWF Heavyweight title.
1990 – WCW World Championship Wrestling – The Steiners retain the NWA US Tag titles against Barry Horowitz & Doug Vines and Doom retain the NWA World Tag titles against Joe Barrett & Brad Batten.
1991 – NWA – Ric Flair is stripped of the NWA title for appearing on WWF TV as NWA Champion. A legal injuction is taken to retrieve the physical belt from Flair.
1995 – UFC 7 – Ken Shamrock retains the UFC Superfight title against Oleg Taktarov via draw.
1997 – WWF Raw vs WCW Nitro – Nitro easily beats Raw by 2.1 points. Raw sees Steve Austin vacate the Intercontinental title due to his neck injury from Owen Hart's Summerslam reverse piledriver and Bret Hart retains the WWF title against Vader in a no holds barred affair via no contest. Nothing of note happens on Nitro.
1999 – Beloved WCW referee Brian Hildebrand aka Mark Curtis succumbs to stomach and bowel cancer age 37.
2000 – AAA TV Taping – Pirata Morgan & El Texano beat Hector Garza & Perro Aguayo Jr for the Mexican Tag titles.
2001 – IWA Midsouth Sweet Science Sixteen – Ace Steel beats Nova to win the Sweet Science tournament and Corporal Robinson beats Mitch Page in the main event in a barbwire pool of leeches match. Sounds awesome. And by awesome, I mean stupid.
2001 – AJPW Budokan Show – Arashi & Koki Kitahara beat Shigeo Okumura & nobutaka Araya for the All Asia Tag titles and Genichiro Tenryu & Yoji Anjo retain the AJPW World Tag titles against Taiyo Kea & Keiji Muto.
2004 – TNA Weekly PPV – Elix Skipper & Chris Harris beat The Naturals for the NWA Tag titles and Jeff Jarrett retains the NWA World title against Jeff Hardy.
2007 – OVW TV – Shawn Spears retains the OVW TV title against Colt Cabana, Mike Kruel retains the OVW title against Elijah Burke and Chet the Jett & Steve Lewington beat Kassidy James & KC James for the OVW Tag titles.
2007 – UFC 75 – UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rampage Jackson beats PRIDE Middleweight Champion Dan Henderson in an unification match.
2008 – Palo Verde, California – 1-time UFC Middleweight Champion Evan Tanner dies of heatstroke after going on a solo excursion into the desert.
2009 – ECW – Zack Ryder beats a young jobber called Rory Fargo, whose trunks split during the match and left his balls exposed. Fargo has to be filmed from the waist up for the hurried remainder of the match and marks the only time someone took a neckbreaker and held their balls instead of their neck.
2011 – TNA Impact Wrestling – Eric Young retains the TNA TV title (hey, remember that title? I wonder what happened to it) and Kurt Angle retains the TNA title against Mr Anderson via self DQ with Sting as special enforcer.
2012 – CZW Down With The Sickness – MASADA retains the CZW World title against El Generico and CZW Junior Heavyweight Champion AR Fox beats CZW Wired TV Champion Dave Crist in a unification ladder match. The CZW Jr Heavy title is retired.